Transnational Mobility, Social Capital and the Negotiation of Professional Opportunities: The Case of British Accountants in the United States at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries - Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3 Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue Cultural and Social History Année : 2020

Transnational Mobility, Social Capital and the Negotiation of Professional Opportunities: The Case of British Accountants in the United States at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries

Résumé

Based on transatlantic correspondences, public accountants’ memoirs and professional publications, this paper explores the strategies of the British professional accountants who moved to the United States between the 1880s and the early 1900s. Alternately offering their services as British expatriates or as US immigrants, they used co-ethnicity and intellectual capital as a set of flexible resources to advance their professional goals in the turbulent economic and political environment of the time. Their transnational experience highlights the pervasiveness of negotiations between professionals, their clients and state institutions on the models and standards of financial expertise.
Fichier non déposé

Dates et versions

hal-03927396 , version 1 (06-01-2023)

Licence

Copyright (Tous droits réservés)

Identifiants

Citer

Evelyne Payen-Variéras. Transnational Mobility, Social Capital and the Negotiation of Professional Opportunities: The Case of British Accountants in the United States at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Cultural and Social History, 2020, 17 (1), pp.11-28. ⟨10.1080/14780038.2019.1596053⟩. ⟨hal-03927396⟩
8 Consultations
0 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More